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2025 Alumni Award winner Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock

Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock

Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock (Physics 1990, PhD Mechanical Engineering 1993) tells young people interested in the sciences and space to “reach for the stars”. From undiagnosed dyslexia to a rocky early education, nothing has stopped her from becoming a leading space scientist, science communicator and business founder.

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“I tell kids to reach for the stars. No matter what your stars are. Mine just happen to be the actual stars, but yours might be something completely different.”

Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock
Distinguished Alumni Award Winner 2025

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